THE ATHENAEUMThe Last ManMary Shelley
Speculative
The Last Man
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textMary Shelley imagined the end of humanity in the late twenty-first century, told by its last survivor wandering an empty Rome. It is slower and sadder than Frankenstein, and full of people she had lost; the grief in it is not invented.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 11 hr 45 min
- Where to find it
- The Horologist’s Study
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #18247. In the public domain in the United States.